There is garbage everywhere. Gangs of teenagers and wasps are swarming the citizens of Halifax. People are getting stabbed, shot, harrassed, and raped. We have the most awful, ghetto, frustrating metro system of ANY city I have ever lived in or visited. Rent is sky high, rivaling Vancouver. THERE ARE BUMS EVERYWHERE.
Am I the only one fed up with this fucking city? —Does not have a spare fucking cigarette
This article appears in Sep 23-29, 2010.
Rent is still much cheaper here today than Toronto was 5 years ago.
so? that’s like comparing cow shit to dog shit.
This place is still a hole.
Perhaps we should direct the swarmers at the bums?
Arm the whole fucking city with those plastic tennis racket battery-operated swatters and go after the whole goddamn lot.
I am also fed with this city especially Metro Transit.
Exits still blocked?
lol, wasps?
@Informant – toronto has way more opportunities, amenities, extra curricular things to do, etc. You can’t compare apples and oranges.
Edmonton was of a similar size as Halifax is now when they opened their light rail.
Light rail in Halifax? We still aren’t at the stage of having tall buildings. Hell, Gloria McClusky churns her own butter and lives in a log cabin.
Yeh Snoop, there was a wasp bitch last week, either that or White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
Summer’s over anyway, they’ll both be leaving soon:)
http://www.halifaxnewsnet.ca/News/2010-09-…
I think the OP did this
feel you. lived here my whole life and i am ashamed, not only of the state of this place, but how everyone walks around like our shit doesn’t stink. emperor’s new clothes – worst place to live. i have recently moved to st john’s and have been in a daze for a month: reliable, effective public transit, a culture of competence, hard work and commitment to themselves and community. what Halifax would be like if it wasn’t destroyed by corruption,greed, backward and prideful incompetence. went t ny and came back home; felt like coming home to a war zone, from the filth and boarded up buildings, down to the graffiti on people’s home. marked like Cain. best thing i did for my soul was to leave.
and yet, you are still here, why bitch about it, just fucking move somewhere else. problem solved.
…this happens in every city. I’m not excusing it, it’s all horrible, this place is a shithole some or most of the time but you aren’t going to move away to the magical shire where nothing bad happens. Halifax is just small enough that you can’t escape it, but it’s still everywhere else too.
you have some points; but….. rental prices NO WAY near Vancouver and ghetto pffft try the downtown eastside 🙁
Aside from rent prices Windsor Ont is a thousand times worse than Halifax in all respects mentioned.
Now that the Harbour is cleaned up, seems all the shit has moved to the streets. On a side note, you can now purchase underground-market tasers…..just check out CBC.ca to find out where.
@Clavin, so was Calgary! So was virtually every other city in NA that have mass transit
Calgary’s LRT started operation in 1981 with a city population of 600 000. The entire HRM is still well short of that, much less the area where a rail system would be feasible. to operate
Calgary and Edmonton need light rail because of their sprawl – Edmonton is one of the largest cities in the world by area yet barely has a population over 1mil. Halifax is one of the most walkable cities I’ve ever been in, granted I live on the peninsula but I’ve never found any need to even use the bus, much less a prospective rail system.
Calgary’s first LRT line was indeed opened in 1981, but construction began in 1978, and planning long before that – in 1978 they had a population of 500,000 give or take. Make it sound ridiculous if you want, but the trip for Lower Sackville to downtown is not walkable.
And the thing that enabled Calgary’s explosive growth – besides the money which is not flowing out of the ground here mind you – was a well planned rapid transit network. This enabled vast neighbourhoods to be planned and built with the LRT in mind, around a stop. That’s why today the LRT in Calgary actually makes a /profit/!
I lived in Calgary, their transit system is far from great. I could bike to work in 15 minutes (if I dared) but transit to get there took more than an hour. I’m all for better transit, but if it leads to sprawl like they have then no way… We need to build up more than out, and make the out-lying development make more sense then we have been. Calgary suburbs is nothing more than human storage and inter/national chains. Sidewalks barely exist…
Biking in -40, that must have been fun mod 🙂
Of course it is far from perfect – but far more perfect that the one we have here. I’ve never lived there but I have family there and have visited several times. NYC has the best transit system in the world, that I have ever visited, but then again they have 9 million people to support it. We don’t.
That being said, planning for growth, is a no brainer.
And I totally agree with you – building up is the way to go for so many reasons, environmentally, financially (concentration of services, etc.) – but with the Save the view and Heritage group types proliferating like the hornets, good luck.
And a trip from like Crowfoot Station to Olympic station (Downtown) only takes like 25 minutes… where exactly were you going that took you an hour!? Holy moly
dartmouthy, there are plenty of bus routes in Calgary that take an hour or more. The LRT won’t get you everwhere you need to. Comparing transit systems within other cities to Halifax is stupid. We don’t have the population and the topography is totally fucked. A LRT would be a waste of money in HRM and something I would not support. I live in the burbs and can get downtown by bus within 30-40 minutes. Let’s put things into perspective people. The worse thing about this city isn’t Metro Transit, it’s our ability to be negative and complain out of context.
-40 was bad, but worse was the roads, driving a bike was dangerous! I was going from Sait area to ??? Can’t remember the name of the neighbourhood. The problem was I had to take a bus to Sait, the LRT, and then another bus to work at the fancy grocery store that paid me, which as I said took at most 20 minutes on a bike. I loved the c-train and it’s wind power, but it couldn’t get you everywhere you needed to go… Getting downtown was less of a problem, but that’s only helpful for those who work DT, and I could still bike there faster too!
Thanks BROC…
Why are comparing other cities transit systems to ours “stupid”? Because we have hills? There are configurations that could avoid most of those, but I guess that would be stupid because you can take a bus that sites in the same traffic you are trying to avoid by taking transit – for 90% of your 40 minute trip. Sure, ok… complain out of context? In what way? lol.
And up this the way… but I like the views too, although maybe we don’t have to protect them all so aggressively. A little give and take would go a long way to better this city, and i truly love Halifax… I’ve been a lot of places and everywhere sucks somewhat. But as they say the grass is always greener…
Hey Mod, yeah I thought the wind power thing was pretty neat too – but yes I mean the LRT is basically NW NE or South right? My uncle lived down by Glenmore reservoir in the SW and there was certainly no LRT in that neck of the woods, so I understand what you mean.
Still though to have a modern transit system which the bus can complement seems like something to work towards, over a 25 year plan for example – something the city of Halifax has, but fails to mention anything about mass transit. Now that is stupid, BROC.
I think the only people against LRT are bus drivers and their unions, scared of preserving their union jobs… and it’s true, an LRT will carry 10 times the people a bus does with one driver. So perhaps I see why it is so frightening… And in our case heavy rail would suffice for LRT as it would be much cheaper, but would still get around the traffic that busses will always have to compete with. Oops, sorry I forgot conversation and ideas are stupid 😉
The problem with even considering a LRT in this city is that A) We do not have the population that necessitates it B) Cities that do have it (i.e. Calgary) have it because otherwise, you’re looking at bus routes that take a couple of hours while our longest bus routes are well under an hour. So to invest tons of money into a LRT system which this city does not need is pointless. Yes, Calgary started planning their LRT system at an early stage, you know why? Because they’re an oil city and probably anticipated a boom in their economy and population. Although Halifax is the hub of the Maritimes, I can’t see our population increasing much anytime soon. So yes, dartmouthy, I will gladly suffer my 30-40 minute bus ride to work before I see my tax dollars go into a LRT service. Btw, if you have some insight into transit planning that the folks who are doing it now don’t, maybe you should apply there. Thought so…
LOL… we should be investing tons of money into a 4 pad skating rink and a convention center instead that would have payed for a proper mass transit system, yes I see your logic now BROC thanks. And sure, when a city doesn’t have the infrastructure to support a larger population, it’s best not to plan for one at all, right? Judging by your attitude you must be one of the retards the city is relying on for planning advice instead, it all makes sense now haha. Ever ride the 61/14 BROC? So how long is that route from one end to the other? Oh you are wrong? Well that’s ok, you don’t have to admit it to me or anyone else here, it doesn’t lower my respect for your highly intellectual opinions, certainly.
Or hey, maybe we should spend more than a billion dollars on a new bridge instead, right BROC? We have no problem floating and planning for projects like that – even though that would pay for an LRT/Heavy rail system five times over. I’ll let you get back to your flippant ignorance now.
Just so you know BROC “our longest bus routes are well under an hour”:
The 3, 10, 20, 21, 58, 59, 66, 68, 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87 are all _at least_ an hour from end to end – the 82 is _at least 1.5_ hours! The 61/14 is a little more than _2 hours_!
No one said either the 4-pad rink or the convention centre was a good idea.
Exactly, brendon. Just because the city is needlessly spending money on some things does not justify spending it on a LRT system. And dartmouthy, kudos on your homework on the bus routes, I wonder how many of those routes are actually ridden end to end? As I already said, LRT’s may work in larger cities but are not needed here. If we were to spend the X millions of dollars to install this service, do you actually think that the money generated from ridership would pay for it, and sustain it? My points aren’t “flippant ignorance” as you see it, they’re realism. But alas, I am through with this thread as I have no more patience to argue it anymore.